Little Lifelines to Sanity

So I've been spending a lot of time figure painting during the "isolation", I have been painting 4 or 5 hours a day usually on a couple of different projects, but the figure stuff is just really engaging. So many problems to solve. The model is a young woman that the Pre-Raphaelites would have killed for. She has this amazing thick, curly hair that changes color in the light and runs anywhere from golden-yellow to auburn and her skin is almost almost luminescently pale. I know the photos are not doing the images justice, but I will reshoot them at a later date. The first couple were in natural light and it was like channeling John Singer Sargent. The second image when you see the painting in real life the body seems to glow, so I was really happy with that result. The last painting was the pose from Bronzino's Exposure of Luxury that we tried to recreate. and I think we managed fairly well. So we move ahead trying to stay alive. I went out to Colorado for a week to climb and hike and that really helped, so we just keep trying to stay ahead of the ax-man.